I was like, you know, if you want to be someone big, you have to dress the part.

You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual.

I don't want the attention. I want the respect.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

I can do whatever I want.

I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt.

[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"

There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

I don't have a stylist. That, in a way, is cheating. Put five players in a thrift store and see who has the best style in the end, and then you'll see who has real style.

[ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else.

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.